The LITFL Review 012

The LITFL Review is your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peaks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team will cast the spotlight on the best and brightest from the blogosphere, the podcast video/audiosphere and the rest of the Web 2.0 social media jungle.

The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beaut of the Week!

Bonus – Is Kayexalate Useless? — Here’s an idea, why don’t we poor liquid concrete up that critically ill renal patient’s backside? If its in the the NEJM it must be true… right? Resonium for hyperkalemia gets debunked.

CVT guideline — cerebral venous thrombosis is one of those bad boy diagnoses that gives most critical care physicians the willies. Cliff, with a hat tip to LITFL team member Oli Flower’s neuro-icu.com, gives the run down on the latest AHA/ASA diagnostic and management guidelines.

This week’s Paucis Verbis: Need rapid sedation for that violent and aggressive patient? Unable to get an IV, can’t find the IO? Find out which IM drugs work best for chemical sedation for severe agitation.

Twee-D and Twitical Care

News from the Fastlane

Look out for some insanely brilliant posts from one of LITFL’s newest team members, ‘Junior’, in the next couple of days… Tomorrow’s ‘Choose Your Own Resus Adventure!‘ will be followed up by ‘The Ballad of Eric’s Prostate‘ — they’re not to be missed!

The Final Words

“To thrive in Emergency Medicine you must recognise what the specialty is, the provision of medicine to anyone and anytime – emergency has little to do with it most of the time!”

— Greg Henry

“Beware of patients who call you “Doc.” They rarely pay their bills.”

—William Osler, 1849-1919.

That’s it for now… Hopefully this roundup of the world of electronic emergency medicine and critical care education for everyone helps you to deal with anyone, anything, anywhere at anytime for at least another week!

If you’d like to suggest something for inclusion in the next edition of The LITFL Review, email our roving reporter:kane AT lifeinthefastlane.com